Tom Little QC, following a recommendation by the Presiding Judges of the North Eastern Circuit, has been authorised by the Senior Presiding Judge to sit as a Recorder in the County Court. After he has undertaken his Judicial College training later in the year he will be able to try a range of work including Fast Track and Multi Track trials as well as hearing interlocutory applications and injunctions. Tom was appointed as a Crown Court Recorder in 2012 and in 2015 he was authorised to try Rape and Serious Sexual Offence cases.
This week Thomas Yarrow revisits the vexed question of the use of artificial intelligence in legal research – and our intrepid reporter finds that it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. In fact the experience led him to such depths of despair that he…
This week Ben Rodgers relays two tales from the coalface, both relating to applications to resile from admissions. Readers will be interested to know that in both cases the court applied the balance of prejudice test with the result that the defendants’ applications were refused….
This week Conor Kennedy considers a novel point of construction in relation to challenging service of claim forms; the headline is that defendants must take steps to mount a jurisdictional challenge within the tight deadlines provided for in the CPR, but Conor asks whether this…
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